The use of camera traps has grown increasingly popular lately, especially at our house. My wife, Karen, gave me a simple camera trap as a Christmas gift last year, and we’d had pretty good luck capturing images of mule deer, gray foxes, ground squirrels, and birds and deer mice eating the seed we put out. This fall, we even got a bear feeding on apples in our...
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Hundreds of thousands of eared grebes spend the fall floating on Mono Lake gorging themselves on brine shrimp, and getting primed to migrate south into Mexico and Guatemala for the winter. Mono Lake, which has been estimated to have as many as 2 million eared grebes in mid-October, is the most important fall staging location in North America, supporting nearly 1/3 of...
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I’m glad to be able to say that four of my images were chosen by the G2 Gallery as part of a show benefiting the Eastern Sierra Land Trust. The G2 generously donates 40% of all photo sales to different environmental organizations and causes, and for this show they teamed up with Eastern Sierra Land Trust and seven eastside photographers. All of the images...
Learn MoreDue to overwhelming demand, I’ve finally added a new Gallery of nothing but time-lapse videos. Some of these are also posted on You Tube, but you can click on the thumbnails and watch them without leaving my website (so convenient!). And they’re short, mostly less than 30 sec, so you won’t be wasting your time, even by viewing them all. So far...
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Clouds are – both literally and figuratively – one of nature’s highest forms of abstract art. Alfred Stieglitz, who had a passion for photography as Art, was the first photographer to photograph clouds “solely for their artistic merits.” He called his series of cloud photographs Equivalents, and his cloud images are widely recognized as the first intentional...
Learn MoreHappy 2012! I am writing this post later than I had planned, but a New Year’s resolution (other than not procrastinating) got in the way, and well… I procrastinated. Anyway, these are a few of my favorite images from this past year. They aren’t necessarily my most marketable photos, but are my favorites of what I love to photograph, and I hope you...
Learn MoreIf you don’t have hours to spend lying on your back watching the clouds float by, you can compress a few hours of photos into a minute or less, and enjoy the clouds in a time-lapse video. Since I’m a big fan of clouds, and because I’m lucky enough to live in one of the best cloudspotting locations on Earth, I’ve been making time-lapses of clouds for the past...
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While searching for an appropriate rock outcrop to light-paint in Buttermilk Country west of Bishop, I inadvertently found a large rock with a crack that looked familiar. This was the rock made “famous” by Galen Rowell and his photo of “Split Rock and Cloud” on the cover of his book, “Mountain Light.” I was after something altogether different, trying to...
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There is nothing like getting up in a small plane to give you the lay of the land, and there is no substitute for the perspective that an aerial photo can provide. I needed some images of the Bishop area for a book project I’m working on, and so I decided to hire Geoff Pope of Black Mountain Air Service to take me up for an early morning spin above the northern...
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